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Two-day joint workshop

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IIT Bombay and WUStL organizes a two-day joint workshop on 'Aerosol and Air Quality'

Aerosols have come to play a major role in air quality and climate change studies and in advanced nano-particle applications. In this context, it is necessary to take stock of the progress in the fields of aerosol physics and chemistry encompassing the basic principles of their formation, growth, and evolution, as well as the techniques for measurement, characterization, and modeling of their properties. Advances in these cross-disciplinary areas of research are pivotal for improving our understanding and estimation of climate forcing; ensuring air quality protection; assessment of health impacts; and enabling of advanced material synthesis.

Over the years, findings of large variations information pathways, morphology, chemical composition and optical properties of aerosols have spurred a rapid growth of interest in this discipline. The purpose of this workshop is to bring together a group of researchers from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and Washington University in St. Louis (WUStL) with diverse interests and expertise in nucleation, transport, growth, instrumentation, characterization, and multi-scale modeling of aerosols to discuss recent advances, current challenges, and new directions.